It’s pitch black. I’m 30,000 feet in the air. Blasting Memory Tapes.
On my way back to New York—the flight is less than two hours, but going the opposite way felt longer since we had to wait forever to take off from LaGuardia on Friday.
It’s odd—on Google Maps it labels LaGuardia “Flushing Airport.” WTF? I mean, I know it’s located in Flushing, but that’s a Google fail.
I have a paper due tomorrow that I’m not happy with and I think has a ton of flaws. I also have a bunch of news items that I should have finished yesterday, but without wi-fi at Josh’s theatre I couldn’t be very productive.
There’s also the meeting for choosing roommates for next semester at the university. I feel overwhelmed, but not terribly. I know I’ll finish the paper, and even if it isn’t a tour de force that I’ll get a good grade on it.
I don’t think I have much else in the works, save for my Grammar and Style test on Wednesday. I need to read that packet she handed out a few weeks ago. Mrs. Deakins’ tests are comprehensive, to say the least.
Although it wasn’t jam-packed with activities (we didn’t really do much of anything save for watch Star Trek on my laptop in the hotel room), my visit to Illinois was a good diversion. Despite technically being an exurb of Chicago, the town was desolate. Chain restaurants followed me. There was even a Chipotle.
I missed my organic vegan pan-asian macrobiotic cuisine terribly, after two days subsisting on Subway and diner food. Give me Souen or give me death.
However, I did happen upon a Denny’s, which I hadn’t been to in years. I remember all the times Kelly and Christen and I would go to Denny’s (and Mel’s). It was almost sad to know that all of that is gone. Well, not all. I can’t wait to see Christen. It feels like death to know that I haven’t seen her in almost a year. Only three more months.
I picked up an Economist at a newsstand at the airport (my subscription has expired and I don’t really have the money to continue it) and delved into the article on the actual healthcare bill that passed. After all the waffling about what should be in the actual bill, it actually does accomplish a number of important objectives: eliminates “preexisting condition” crap (in 2014), makes it so children can stay on their parents’ plans until they are 26, and mandates insurance for everyone. The troubling thing is that there really is not much of an attempt to control costs, but since that seems to be the only thing that the Democrats and Republicans agree on, a subsequent bill can address that.
Damn. They just told us to turn off electronic devices.
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